Yes we all know the game is full of hackers, some might want to try and hide that fact, but does anyone actually know about the ban system in terms of how long it actually takes from report to ban? has anyone tracked a hacker by adding them to steam friends and finding a few days/weeks later that they are now banned? i've seen tons of hackers in high prestiges, so they seem to be getting away with it for weeks, but i cant keep track of them all and i dont want to add them because of the way we can always change our names in steam, it would be too hard to actually know, whos who unless you pay specific attention to their groups/friends/games etc.

yes i know how the VAC bans operate, i was mainly asking about the IW (ingame reporting) bans, just wondering if anyone is keeping tabs on them or has any idea, hopefully might hear from someone within IW (candy) or AV (mods here).

As far as I know, they're constantly reviewing reports and making changes where necessary. Although each case would be unique and there would be no time frame for them (from 1 second to infinity, depends on too many factors).

For example, I haven't seen any prestige 10 players for at least 2 days now, it seems those were reset already.

thats not a good thing, the only people that would have been prestige 10 would be the people hosting the xp lobbies, that or people who added the hosts and purposefully joined in, to me thats cheating. Ok there are cases where at low peek times, you may not be able to join any other games in certain regions and be forced into those lobbies game after game and for those people i feel sorry, but to just reset them boils my blood, just another great reason for dedi servers at least that way there would be clear cut ways to point out exactly whos hosting these lobbies and ban them permanently.

VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) is not admin controlled, no-one is "letting them play for a few months", the way it operates is, VAC is a warden program that reads game memory and attempts to detect if the game files have been changed in any way, such as hack injectors. (this is why wall hacks are harder to ban as they sometimes don't interact with the game but instead overlay).

As far as IW bans, that is handled via reports by @IWEnforcers/in-game and last time I've seen the banhammer being handled by the previous Infinity Ward's CM and after his departure @Candyslexia, Both of the last two probably do not handle banning anymore. (not sure)

VAC does use a delay banning system though so "letting them away with it" is quite accurate. Its a way of catching out large numbers in bulk as the hacker cannot tell when his hack has been detected and therefore cannot tell people when to stop using a certain hack. Though many hackers use VAC bypasses. Bancandy/candyslexia was in charge of banning on MW3 and look how that turned out

Bancandy turned out great, in-fact with the assistance of Xifons reporting tool it was amazing, it lowered the hacker numbers to almost nothing for several months, unfortunately there was unforeseen bugs with the tool and they discontinued it, thus the effort of uploading a video of a hacker was too painful and once again they started to flood the lobbies.

Me, No. I just started today posting. I have been trying to find out when they are going to fix all the holes in the game. Black Ops, to me did not have a lot of hackers, until the end. So when I got Ghost, I was thinking it wouldn't have a lot of hacker f-ing up the game play.

I'm sorry what? I have never been banned by VAC or Candyslexia, if you actually read the post properly, I said I've been banned by as the admins that are generally inexperienced and did not even want to provide evidence, not because I was hacking, but they thought I was.

You're more than welcome to check my profile out Steam Community :: Starbuck [KtS], I've never been banned by a warden system, please don't assume because you cannot read.

I'm sorry if my comment was misleading. I should have mentioned that VAC is not a controlled system, it is a piece of software, a computer program, that watches players. What I meant under "letting them play" was, as JustBetter mentioned, is the fact VAC uses delayed ban system, where a player is not banned for a period of time. That is the worst part of VAC: it can take significant time to ban a cheater.

^Correct. Ghosts is NOT a VAC Enabled game - period! Instead Ghosts is an IW Ban (IAC) only; similar but clearly (so far) not as effective as Treyarch's (TAC) Bans which were very effective but not always so 'fast' especially with 'stealthy cheats/cheaters.'

All IW (IAC) needs to do is look at some of the ridiculous Leaderboard data: Over-Accuracy, Repetitive Accuracy over Distance, Wall (Object) Penetration Kill high-numbers, Uber High KDR, etc to ban an easy 75% or more Obvious Hackers. Next employ a sniffer for Binary Codes of the more popular Cheat Sites for another 5%-15% of the hackers out there.

Guess I'll have to withdraw my VAC-related statements towards COD:Ghosts till I find more info on this. I expected this to be same as other CODs - being VAC-protected. Guess skipping two COD games in a row really shows...

Because of hacked lobbies I do not think they can say for sure that evey person on the leaderboards flagged with erroneous data is definitely hacking. A large portion on the leaderboard are probably hacking but because they cannot determine which are and are not they have chosen to do nothing.

Yes we all know the game is full of hackers, some might want to try and hide that fact, but does anyone actually know about the ban system in terms of how long it actually takes from report to ban? has anyone tracked a hacker by adding them to steam friends and finding a few days/weeks later that they are now banned? i've seen tons of hackers in high prestiges, so they seem to be getting away with it for weeks, but i cant keep track of them all and i dont want to add them because of the way we can always change our names in steam, it would be too hard to actually know, whos who unless you pay specific attention to their groups/friends/games etc.

Anyone got even the slightest idea?

What is the ratio of Unicorns to Leprechauns? So far...I'd say that it takes at least 2-3 weeks. I've run into a couple of hackers that were on week 1 with blatant hacks (head shot, head shot, head shot), and they are still around 3 weeks later.

So the reporting...it sucks. Is slow. And before too long they will close this thread like the other ones mentioning hacking, and delete all of the comments.

Only ridiculous data, add to the list Excessive 'Bone' kills (e.g. Headshots), and Binary recognition will result in a 'IAC' Ban. You and your friends can press that 'Report' button until your fingers bleed.

Keep in mind since Ghosts is not a VAC Enabled game you will not see a 'VAC Ban' or a new one anyway if >1 added to the Offenders's Steam account...all you'll be able to do is subjectively infer that they were/are banned from Ghost if they do not play that game any longer i.e. Last Played date...

can i just ask, from where do you get this information that the game is not VAC enabled? Foxhound mod told me here that they do use VAC, is he lying or are you lying, provide links to your resources please.

As above, note no VAC Enabled in Ghosts vs BO2 with VAC Enabled, but keep in mind the most used and effective by far in BO2 were TAC Bans. Also search or better try to search for Ghosts with the VAC Enabled filter here -> store.steampowered.com/search/?category2=8

It's sad, most hackers are blatantly hacking, not even trying to hide it because...well, they can, and nothing is being done, the ones I run into brag about hacking since pre-release and that IW "can't" ban them. I've adjusted my play style to the campier vibe of Ghosts, but even that doesn't work against blatant botters. It's to the point where they even play with each other in lobbies now on the same team (ran into two partied up the other day, both with the exact same hack). I've learned my lesson, this will be the last IW game I ever buy...period.

So true. I came across a guy last night [Removed by Moderator] and while still waiting for the game countdown he types "report me, report me etc". As soon as the match start, I proceeded to get shot through wall with sniper aimbot. I got that good old MW3 feeling back.

I talked to 2 hackers last night in depth. They were 2 adult guys in their 40s and the gist of the conservation was that they are really frustrated and sick and tired with IW and chose to hack and incite people to report them. Is it just a ruse behind their real motives or is there some amount a truth in what they say?

Pff...only (2)? Last night I said screw it and tried Hardcore DOM and the ENTIRE team was hacking. Sadly some hackers apparently simply said screw it and are shooting your trough anything they can and never mind being subtle.

One game stuck out last night, some guy must have been host and about every single kill you'd level up 1, e.g. 22...kill...23...etc after a few kills I noticed it and left.

Guys, we can not do anything. There is a proposal. Let's ask treyarch return next year we rent servers. Let's write in Twitter or Facebook are. Let everyone write, I do not know what else might be out.(12-18 slots)